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ROCHESTER, N. Y„ FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1938
\ Swish, Swish--Splash, Splash —and Boom, Boom —Coast Guard Has Its Day
Nobody—least of all short-wave broadcaster Lowell MacMillan of WKEC—expected the breeches buoy to act this way at
Coast Guard anniversary yesterday, but it did, giving MacMillan a wetting. In center Coast Guardsmen show how they
right a capsized boat. At the right Coast Guard Commander
George E. Jackson is shown with gun to shoot line to ship.
Coast Guard Fete—Wet Feet for Newscaster
Announcer Ducked
As Breeches Buoy
Misbehaves
The Summerville Coast Guard
station yesterday observed with
some ceremony the 148th anniversary of the service, all of which
was, to Lowell MacMillan, a ea3e of
wet pants,
Mr. MacMillan broadcast a good
portion of the goings on over
WHEC from a position most roughly described as "half-in and half-
While he was supposed to be
drawn from the cutter Jackson to
the shore via breeches buoy, the
while letting a palpitant public in
on the thrill thereof over a microphone, the process consisted chiefly
of MacMillan's being dragged
through the water on a sagging
rope, scuppers under and drawing
fine.
The trouble. Chief Boatswain's
Mate George E. Jackson explained
in some haste, was that when they
tiicd to tighten the buoy line, the
Jackson, not at all used to such
tuggings simply answered the rope
and came shoreward,
Macmillan already had seen one
guardsmen, James McDonough,
drag his dress-uniformed legs
through the water much to his
vociferous disgust, but thought he
could get away with it anyway.
Instead of getting into the
breeches part of the buoy, he sat
on top of it, legs coyly tucked
under, his brown and white shoes
peeping through. In about three
minutes he was pockets under
water,
"A most embarrassing situation,"
he commented.
A crowd of several hundred witnessed his embarrassment and the
rest of the anniversary demonstration put on by the Summerville
crew. The whole process of attaching the buoy was followed
through, from the placing of a line
by gun, to the final towing of the
buoy to the boat.
An eight-man lifeboat crew, aptly
clad in bathing suits, took a surf-
boat out and turned it over and
righted it in the water a couple of
times to the delight of the onlookers and a symphony of puffings
at the hard labor on their part.

ROCHESTER, N. Y„ FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1938
\ Swish, Swish--Splash, Splash —and Boom, Boom —Coast Guard Has Its Day
Nobody—least of all short-wave broadcaster Lowell MacMillan of WKEC—expected the breeches buoy to act this way at
Coast Guard anniversary yesterday, but it did, giving MacMillan a wetting. In center Coast Guardsmen show how they
right a capsized boat. At the right Coast Guard Commander
George E. Jackson is shown with gun to shoot line to ship.
Coast Guard Fete—Wet Feet for Newscaster
Announcer Ducked
As Breeches Buoy
Misbehaves
The Summerville Coast Guard
station yesterday observed with
some ceremony the 148th anniversary of the service, all of which
was, to Lowell MacMillan, a ea3e of
wet pants,
Mr. MacMillan broadcast a good
portion of the goings on over
WHEC from a position most roughly described as "half-in and half-
While he was supposed to be
drawn from the cutter Jackson to
the shore via breeches buoy, the
while letting a palpitant public in
on the thrill thereof over a microphone, the process consisted chiefly
of MacMillan's being dragged
through the water on a sagging
rope, scuppers under and drawing
fine.
The trouble. Chief Boatswain's
Mate George E. Jackson explained
in some haste, was that when they
tiicd to tighten the buoy line, the
Jackson, not at all used to such
tuggings simply answered the rope
and came shoreward,
Macmillan already had seen one
guardsmen, James McDonough,
drag his dress-uniformed legs
through the water much to his
vociferous disgust, but thought he
could get away with it anyway.
Instead of getting into the
breeches part of the buoy, he sat
on top of it, legs coyly tucked
under, his brown and white shoes
peeping through. In about three
minutes he was pockets under
water,
"A most embarrassing situation,"
he commented.
A crowd of several hundred witnessed his embarrassment and the
rest of the anniversary demonstration put on by the Summerville
crew. The whole process of attaching the buoy was followed
through, from the placing of a line
by gun, to the final towing of the
buoy to the boat.
An eight-man lifeboat crew, aptly
clad in bathing suits, took a surf-
boat out and turned it over and
righted it in the water a couple of
times to the delight of the onlookers and a symphony of puffings
at the hard labor on their part.